THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES

Charles Dickens kicked off “The Tale of Two Cities” with those lines in 1859. The part he left out was all the time in between, the regular times, where most humans spend most of their lives. In this service, we’ll recruit various artists and thinkers from across the centuries to help us explore ecstasy, misery and mundanity as a kind of “immortal continuum” that gives shape to the human experience./p>